Assembly Bill A6975

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A6975 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S506
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §365-o, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8916, S6054
2019-2020: A3415, S3339
2021-2022: A4073, S238

2023-A6975 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

2023-A6975 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6975
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to enacting Vincent
   Scheppa's  law authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of in-home
   private duty nursing services to a recipient of medical assistance  by
   a relative who is a registered professional nurse

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be  known  and  may  be  cited  as  "Vincent
 Scheppa's law".
   §  2. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 365-p
 to read as follows:
   § 365-P. PROVISION OF IN-HOME PRIVATE DUTY  NURSING  SERVICES  BY  THE
 RELATIVE OF A RECIPIENT. UPON APPLICATION OR REQUEST TO THE COMMISSIONER
 BY  A  RECIPIENT  OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, OR HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE OR
 GUARDIAN, WHO HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR THE  PROVISION  OF  IN-HOME  PRIVATE
 DUTY  NURSING,  THE  COMMISSIONER  MAY  AUTHORIZE  THE PROVISION OF SUCH
 PRIVATE DUTY NURSING BY AN ADULT RELATIVE OF SUCH RECIPIENT, OTHER  THAN
 A  SPOUSE  OF  THE  RECIPIENT,  WHO  IS A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE.
 REIMBURSEMENT FOR PRIVATE NURSING SERVICES PROVIDED IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH
 THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE  AT  THE  RATE  PAID  FOR THE PROVISION OF SUCH
 SERVICES BY A LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01854-02-3

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